Knowledge Handler

Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques

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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Thursday, October 12, 2023

The Growth of Data Mining

McKenszie Funk tells the story of Hank Asher and data mining .

-DD

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Friday, March 31, 2017

New Green Revolution From Data Mining

Jon Markman indicates that agribusiness is obtaining higher yields by examining existing data about field productivity. He cites a Wall Street Journal article reporting doubling or tripling of crop yields as a result of close analysis of past practices.

-DD

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Sunday, September 18, 2016

Data mining

Andy Cogrgreave tells how to get information from your data .

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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Data Mining and Backups

Chris Poelker suggests that data mining can be run against disc-based backups of consolidated date.

IT administrators can use the number of links to an object to find out how many copies of that object are out there in the wild. Then, he can use the metadata about the object itself to search for other information that would normally be too difficult to find if he had to search across all the systems, files, databases and other applications located across the organization, not to mention any remote locations.
-DD

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Privacy In Hotels

Peter Lindberg shares What Your Hotel Knows About You.

-DD

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